Open Innovation Future Salon with Ideation Challange

Please join
us for a special interactive Future Salon: Open Innovation and the Future of
Organizations on Wednesday the 11th of August 6pm to 9pm at SAP Labs in
Palo Alto. Space is limited to 75 in person. Therefore please RSVP: http://bit.ly/aqSWVi

We start off
with an introduction to the current status and future of open innovation by
Founder and CEO of DiscoveryCast Cesar Castro (See:
Abstract further down.)

Mark Finnern
will introduce SAP's newly developed ideation platform: Idea Place http://ideas.sap.com
which we will use for the interactive part of the Salon the Ideation Challenge.

Open PCAST is an
online space for the public to give idea feedback to the PCAST team (Details
further down). At
the Future Salon we are looking for ideas to solve the following problem:

Ideation Challenge: You are
elected to the PCAST advisory board. You have access to up to $500 million in Federal
Funding and the ability to propose new investments, legislation, executive
orders, or other actions. What is the most important thing you can advise the
federal government to do or try to stimulate U.S. innovation, economic
productivity or jobs in nanotech, biotech, or infotech (the technology
"golden triangle") within the next three years (Obama's
re-election horizon)?

We'd
like you to think about this Ideation Question over the next days and come to
the Salon with a few rough ideas to be discussed among your future-interested
colleagues. Bring your laptop to participate in Idea Place. We have
already created the 3 areas we want to focus on: Infotech,
Biotech,
and Nanotech.

We
will form teams of 4-6 at the Salon. These
groups can be arounda particular science
topic (Nanotech, Biotech, Infotech) or solution topic (Education,
Competitiveness, Immigration Reform, etc.).
Each team will have ~30 minutes to
generate/refine a couple of idea(s).You
will post your Ideation Group ideas into the Idea Place during the Salon.

We
will then instruct everyone on how to judge the submitted ideas and will do a
round of commenting and voting on the suggested ideas. We hope to find volunteers that will post the Future
Salon’s top ranked ideas to Open PCAST http://pcast.ideascale.com/ after the Salon.
We will end the evening with a critique of the process and our outcome.

This should be a fun
and productive exercise in applied ideation for innovation. We really hope you
can join us!

Abstract: This talk will
provide an update of what open innovation means today (beyond it’s roots in
R&D and product development). Open innovation will be presented in the context
of leveraging external networks to help your organization thrive and succeed.
Topics covered in this talk include: Open Innovation Strategies, How To Prepare
for The New Innovation Paradigm, Innovation in an Increasingly Collaborative
Environment, Managing Confidentiality / Intellectual Property, Getting Started:
Developing a Global Innovation Strategy and Examples / Case Studies of
companies that are successfully deploying these strategies. This lecture will
provide concrete examples and key takeaways of how open innovation is helping
companies today.

The President's
Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST) is
an advisory group of the nation’s leading scientists and engineers, formed in
April 2010, to advise the President and Vice President and formulate policy in
the many areas where understanding of science, technology, and innovation is
key to strengthening our economy and forming policy that works for the American
people. President Barack Obama said, "PCAST represents
leaders from many scientific disciplines who will bring a diversity of
experience and views. I will charge them with advising me about national
strategies to nurture and sustain a culture of scientific
innovation." PCAST is co-chaired by John
Holdren, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology and Director
of the White House Office
of Science and Technology Policy; Eric Lander, Director of the
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and one of the principal leaders of the
Human Genome Project; and Harold Varmus, President and CEO of Memorial
Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, former head of the National Institutes of Health
and a Nobel laureate.

Cesar
Castro Bio

Cesar
Castro is Founder and CEO of DiscoveryCast, a company that has developed an
online collaborative brainstorming platform. He founded DiscoveryCast based on
his experience in innovation, crowdsourcing, and corporate social networking.
He is also an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco School of
Business, where he lectures in the area of innovation and changing the
corporate culture to embrace new innovation models.

He
is a former Research Director at the Institute For The Future (IFTF) where he
led the Signtific Project, the Institute's study of the future of science and
technology. Before joining IFTF, Cesar served as Vice President of Business
Development at InnoCentive from 2001 - 2006, one of the leading open innovation
platforms. As VP Business Development, he was responsible for recruiting
innovative companies from around the world to join and post their R&D
challenges on the InnoCentive platform. He worked with organizations in the
life sciences, defense, manufacturing, food, and chemical sectors. He also
worked at the Industrial Research Institute, Shell Chemical Company, and MBA
Polymers (a Bay Area clean-tech company).

Cesar
has conducted projects on the future of science and technology, open
innovation, crowdsourcing strategies for corporations, and network-centric
innovation. He has written forecasts and given speeches on open innovation in
heath care, the future of science and technology, trends in global health, and
using networks (and crowdsourcing) to enhance innovation practices.

He
holds a B.S. in Chemistry from Loyola College in Maryland and an M.S. in
Macromolecular Science from Case Western Reserve University. He can be reached
via email at cesar@discoverycast.com or via his blog
(http://openinno.wordpress.com/).

Future Salons have the following
structure: 6-7pm is networking with light refreshments proudly sponsored by
SAP; 7-9+pm is the above format of short lecture and interactive ideation
session. Please RSVP: http://bit.ly/aqSWVi

SAP Labs
North America, Building 1, Room: Southern Cross. SAP is located at 3410
Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304[map]. Free and open to the public.